OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of PalZ is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
On the dimorphic occurrence of the upper Tithonian ammonite genus Djurjuriceras Roman from the Blue Nile Basin (Ethiopia)	20
A new species of Cretaceoushormiops from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)	19
Morphology of the stem group echinoids Lepidocentrus eifelianus and Rhenechinus hopstaetteri from the Devonian of the Eifel region, Germany	16
Latest Triassic (Sevatian–Rhaetian) reef carbonates from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria), their mollusc dwellers, and their fate at the end-Triassic extinction event	14
Diversity of gobioid fishes in the late middle Miocene of northern Moldova, Eastern Paratethys—Part II: description of †Moldavigobius helenae gen. et sp. nov.	13
Ooids forming in situ within microbial mats (Kiritimati atoll, central Pacific)	11
Unusual larviform beetles in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber resemble immatures of trilobite beetles and fireflies	11
Enigmatic fragment possibly marks the first pterosaur record from the Lower Toarcian of Grimmen, NE Germany	11
Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)	10
Retiolitid graptolites from the collection of Hermann Jaeger III. Paraplectograptus, Gothograptus and their relatives	10
A new holocrinid sea lily from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Qingyan, south-western China, and the morphological variability of the distal nodal facets in the genus Holocrinus	9
Cheilostome bryozoan epibiosis on brachyuran crabs in the Paratethys Sea during the late Badenian (middle Miocene)	9
Preface: Palaeontological papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, a tribute and memorial	8
A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks	7
Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes	7
A new alcyonacean octocoral (Anthozoa) from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden	7
Redescription of the actinopterygian fish Westollia crassa (Pohlig, 1892) (Aeduellidae) from the Permian sediments of Thuringia and its relationships to other Aeduellidae	7
Braincase and digital endocast of a loricatan pseudosuchian (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia (Canada)	7
Eocene tube-dwelling annelids (Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from the Black Hills, western Washington State: the first record of Neodexiospira from North America	7
Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon	7
Fusulinid biozonation of the Bashkirian–Moscovian successions from the Hadim Nappe, central Taurides, southern Turkey	7
Semicosciniid bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of Rommersheim (Eifel, Germany)	6
A new papionin molar (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Serbia	6
Special Issue: 19th International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Cologne 2019. Palaeontological contributions	6
The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)	6

Fruit taphonomy and origin of hollow goethite spherulites in lacustrine sediments of the Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation, western Canada	5
Bioerosion and encrustation signatures on Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim) from the Miocene Raghama Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: description and paleoenvironmental implications	5
Morphological analysis of Cricetodon aliveriensis (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the locality of Karydia (Rhodope, Northern Greece)	5
The ostracod genus Eucytherura G.W. Müller and the ‘Cythere complexa Brady’ problem	5
New proboscidean specimens from the Late Miocene of Romania: the huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum, the rare “Mammut” cf. obliquelophus and the first description of the shovel-tusker Konobelo	5
Is Hippopotamus antiquus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) affected by body size variations? The contribution of the Mosbach (Germany, Middle Pleistocene) specimen	5
The fossil record of ungulates from the late Pleistocene locality of Melitzia cave, Mani Peninsula, Greece	4
New thyreophoran dinosaur material from the Early Jurassic of northeastern Germany	4
First Eugereonidae (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera) from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg site near Osnabrück, Germany	4
A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy	4
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)	4
Radiolarian cherts and associated siliceous rocks of the Rhenish Massif and Harz Mountains, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian), Germany	4
Bohemicardia hainense (Maurer) revisted: insights into ontogeny and variability of a Devonian hippocardiid rostroconch (Conocardiida: Hippocardiidae)	4
New Archexyelinae (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) from the Triassic Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan	4
Internal conulariid structures unveiled using µCT	4
Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton	3
First Eocene record of a bangialean rhodophyte (the endolithic microboring Conchocelichnus seilacheri) and coralline red algae from the Pacific Coast of North America	3
A new lepisosteiform neopterygian (Actinopterygii) from the lower Toarcian Grimmen Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Germany	3
The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany	3
A new species of swift (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa	3
Placodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) dentaries from Winterswijk, The Netherlands (middle Anisian) and Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany (late Anisian) with comments on ontogenetic changes	3
Mandibular and dental characteristics of the Late Jurassic mammal Henkelotherium guimarotae (Paurodontidae, Dryolestida)	3
Burrows without a trace—How meioturbation affects rock fabrics and leaves a record of meiobenthos activity in shales and mudstones	3
A unique pericyclid from the Viséan of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) and other Helicocyclinae n. subfam. (Goniatitida)	3
Eifelosaurus triadicus Jaekel, 1904, a “forgotten” reptile from the Upper Buntsandstein (Triassic: Anisian) of the Eifel region, Germany	3
First report of turtle and sauropod track assemblages from the Early Jurassic of Guizhou, China	3
Progress in the study of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary sections in the Berchogur Depression (Mugodzhary Mountains, western Kazakhstan)	3
Diversity dynamics of handsome fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) during the Meso-Cenozoic period	3
New and overlooked occurrences of the rarely reported protochelonibiine “turtle” barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe	3
New Ordovician hyolith Elegantilites custos sp. n. and the palaeogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of the genus Elegantilites Marek, 1966	3
Echinoids from the Callovian of Wallücke (Wiehen Hills, W Germany): convergent adaptations to challenging conditions	3
A digging theropod? Enigmatic ankylosed phalanges from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan	2
Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler–Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key	2
New species of small foraminifers from the Mechetlino Quarry section (Southern Urals, Russia): a potential candidate for the GSSP of the lower boundary of the Global Kungurian Stage	2
The first fossil false click beetle larva preserved in amber	2
Evolutionary implications from the tubarium construction of the Retiolitinae (Graptolithina) across the Silurian Cyrtograptus lundgreni extinction event	2
A new genus of the family Spathiopterygidae (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	2
A new basal zatracheid temnospondyl from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, central-east Germany	2
A monospecific assemblage of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Subioblattidae) from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan	2
Cymbospondylus (Ichthyopterygia) from the Early Triassic of Svalbard and the early evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs	2
A new conulariid from the Upper Mississippian (early Serpukhovian) of Central Russia (Moscow Basin): systematics, microstructure, and growth abnormalities	2
Leg bones of the anseriform taxon Nettapterornis from the London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze and notes on the bony-toothed birds from this locality	2
Moscovian–Kasimovian boundary conodont assemblages from the Kalinovo section, Donets Basin, Ukraine	2
A new sponge genus from the Chengjiang biota with an intriguing combination of skeletal characters	2
Diversity and variability of grylloblattidan insects (Grylloblattida) from the early Permian Meisenheim Formation of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)	2
Life in the pipe–zoobenthos in an eighteenth century water pipeline from Stralsund, north-eastern Germany	2
A new species and the earliest occurrence of the Gnathosaurinae (Pterosauria) from the Late Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany	2
Late Early Devonian ostracodes from the Torkoz area (SW Morocco) and the Emsian/Eifelian boundary	2
The first fossil from the superdiverse clade Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae): a new species of the Armored Catfish from the late Miocene of Paraná, Argentina	2
Peabody's legacy: the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic, Anisian) tetrapod ichnofauna—updates from an extensive new tracksite in NE Arizona, USA	2

The age of the Bailongbinghe Formation and the oil shales in northern Qiangtang (North Tibet)	2
A paedomorphic dwarf species, Gauthieria pumilio sp. nov. (Echinoidea: Phymosomatidae), from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Hannover, Germany	2
The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany	2
Oldest East Gondwanan pycnodont fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Jaisalmer, western India	2
The pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco	2
Microbial processes during deposition and diagenesis of Banded Iron Formations	2
New Pliocene Rhinocerotidae findings from the Iberian Peninsula and the revision of the Spanish Pliocene records	2
Massive cryptic microbe-sponge deposits in a Devonian fore-reef slope (Elbingerode Reef Complex, Harz Mts., Germany)	2
Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)	2